Charles W. Stenholm: “This time capsule serves as a symbol of the University's commitment to the future.”

But I sat here and listened carefully to his very eloquent speech that was totally irrelevant to the motion that is before the House. We are not talking about raising taxes. We are talking about being concerned about the rising deficit…

my motion will make one simple change to the base bill. It will reinstate the original pay-as-you-go rules for all legislation which would increase the deficit. The motion would leave in place the discretionary spending limits and other…

The Blue Dog budget this year proposed to spend no more than President Bush recommended that the Congress spend, and we intend to stick with that. When my colleague talks about spending and he talks about revising history, in the 8 years…

You have spent more, period, and that record stands up. All we are talking about today is a simple resolution saying, let us put us all under the gun. If you put your budget on the floor under pay-as-you-go, I will have to vote for it, if…